Media

CBS SportsLine.com's fantasy football games are to be branded "courtesy of Miller Lite", following Miller Lite?s agreement to become presenting sponsor.

NBC/Quokka Ventures has signed a deal to use a new media player for its online coverage of this summer?s Olympic Games.

The Golf Channel is to revamp its web site during the PGA Championship next week to offer visitors more than just the latest news about the day?s golf.

Speedo International is making a real splash at German trade fair ISPO in Munich with the launch of Fastskin.com.

All tests for banned substances carried out during the 2000 Tour de France proved negative, according to the International Cycling Union (UCI).

SportingAuction.com, the online auction site for new brand-name goods, and The Sporting News Online (TSN) have launched a co-branded auction site that will allow visitors to TSN's website to bid on sports equipment from SportingAuction.

InMotion Technologies has just announced a partnership with NBC Quokka Ventures to produce VideoFinish/ SimulCam broadcast images for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

ESPN Latin America and ESPN Pacific Rim will broadcast coverage of the ATP Tennis Masters Series at Toronto and Cincinnati in the coming weeks.

Foreign security forces accompanying athletes to the Sydney Olympics will not be allowed to carry guns to protect their delegations, according to Australian attorney-general Daryl Williams.

Workmen at Sydney's Olympic stadium were forced into an embarrassing cover-up on Wednesday after accidentally revealing the Olympic cauldron to media.

Euro 2000 proved a major hit with TV audiences across the continent, according to the latest figures released by Mediametrie.

The Television Corporation (TTC), the UK-based television production and distribution company, has signed a contract with APBA Offshore, the world?s largest powerboat organisation, to create the Ultracatz Global Challenge, a new Grand Prix powerboat race series.

The National Basketball Association has sued newspaper publisher New York Times Co. for selling a collection of five photographs from the 1999 N.B.A. playoffs, reports the New York Times newspaper

CART has teamed up with the SFX Sports Group for the negotiation of television rights to its FedEx Championship Series.

NBC expects to sell nearly $1 billion in advertising for the Sydney 2000 Olympics this summer, and has already sold more advertising than the record sum from the Atlanta Games in 1996.

European van firm LDV has signed as the main sponsor of Scottish Premier League soccer team St Mirren.